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Old Sparky
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Proper noun
Old Sparky
en US slang Nickname for an electric chair used for executions.
en 1996 Stephen King The Green Mile (novel) The Green Mile 3 https://archive.org/details/greenmile0000unse/page/3/mode/1up and I think that, for most of those men, the truth of what was happening to them finally hit all the way home when their ankles were being clamped to the stout oak of “Old Sparky’s” legs.
en Electricity Chairs Capital punishment